Things of Design
An ongoing workshop series on research through design
Past Workshops:
RtD in Situ: Discussing the Domains and Impact of Design Research (DIS 2020)
- The Stuffness of Research Through Design. David Chatting
- Situated Temporality through Design: Engaging Personal Photo Viewing Experience at Home. Amy Yo Sue Chen and William Odom
- The way of understanding the relational in a complex manner also determines Co-Ability. Renata Deszo
- PizzaBlock: Can a Workshop be a Research Product? Chris Elsden and Jonathan Rankin
- Traces, Glimmers, Residues, and Specks of Things: In Praise of Ephemera. Cally Gatehouse
- Creating and Staging Interactive Costumes–Wearables and E-textiles in the Performing Arts. Michaela Honauer
- Inclusion and the ‘new normals’ of design practice. Maxim Labarande
- This is a design imaginary. Ruth Neubauer
- ‘Station of Being’ – Design Research into Practice. Jeroen Peeters, Rosa van der Veen, and Ambra Trotto
- From Studios to Laptops: Challenges in Imparting Design Education Virtually. Surbhi Pratap, Abhishek Dahiya, and Jyoti Kumar
- Exploring Location Histories as a Design Material for Reflection with Memory Compass & Memory Tracer. Jordan White and William Odom
- Research Through Design with Differently Abled People: Participation, Ownership and Equitable Conclusions. MinYoung Yoo, William Odom, and Arne Berger
- So I drew this thing: Conversations through Artefact Drawing. Paulina Yurman
- RtD for Self-Inquiry: Sleep Ecologies. Tammar Zea-Wolfson, Dan Lockton, Jackie Chou, Yuhan (Antonio) Song, Erin Ryan, CJ Walsh
Doing Things with Research through Design: With What, with Whom, and Towards What Ends?
(CHI 2019)
- Thought Projectors: Autoethnographic Research-through-Design Artifacts. Aubree M. Ball
- A Tangible Color-Picker Toy Designed for Young Children
Balancing Physical Properties and Play Elements Through Design. Florian Güldenpfennig, Peter Fikar, and Roman Ganhör
- Heart Sounds as a Means of Giving Form to Critical Alternatives with Biosensory Data. Noura Howell
- Careful Devices: outline of a research program Tom Jenkins, Anna Vallgårda, Laurens Boer, Teresa Almeida, and Sarah Homewood
- Using Research through Design to Study Future Everyday Life. Lenneke Kuijer
- Reifying Through Design(ing). Dan Lockton
- Designing Creative Tensions between Concept and Embodied Practice. Andrew McPherson, Fabio Morreale, and Andrea Guidi
- When making things with code makes nothing. Troy Nachtigall
- Material improvisations with a new sensor material. Charlotte Nordmoen, Andrew McPherson
- Murmur: Exploring how Awareness of Being Under Surveillance can Lead to Dialogue and Control. Jonathan Rankin
- The Desktop Odometer: Situating Speculative Design in the Amazon Marketplace. Jeremy Viny
- Robot Re-embodiment: Case of How We Funded and Executed RtD for Basic-Exploratory Research. John Zimmerman, Jodi Forlizzi, and Aaron Steinfeld
The Things of Design Research: Diversity in Objects and Outcomes (CHI 2017)
- Multisensory Prototyping for Smart Connected Things. Arne Berger, Kevin Lefeuvre, and Sören Totzauer
- A Data-enabled Design Canvas as Research through Design facilitator. Janne van Kollenburg and Sander Bogers
- Ritual Machine IV: A Message in a Jam. David Chatting, Paulina Yurman, Jo-Anne Bichard, and David S. Kirk
- DIYbio Incubator: A ‘design thing’ at the boundaries of DIY Making and DIY Biology. Piyum Fernando
- HaptiSonic Artefacts: Malleable Prototypes & Audio Diaries for Designing with Visually-Impaired Practitioners. Oussama Metatla, Nick Bryan-Kinns, and Tony Stockman
- Things and 物 in In-situ Making and Evaluating: A Case Study. Wei Wang, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Jennifer G. Sheridan, Yi Shen, Tie Ji, Lucia Marengo, Alessia Milo, Tongtong Ning, Yongmeng Wu, Xiang Xu, and Yating Zou
- Design Research Artifacts: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Saying. Zachary Winegardner
Attending to Objects as Outcomes of Design Research (CHI 2016)